The War Z is now available through Steam, 10% off during introductory period

10% off during introductory period.

The War Z, also known as “The Game That is Not DayZ”, or as we called it “a boring, soul-less apocalypse” is now available on Steam. Priced at $15 for just the game itself, The War Z is also available to be purchased with in-game currency, which bumps it up into bundles of $25 and $50 respectively. All options are on sale for 10% off during this introductory period.

This Steam launch is being labelled a “Foundation Release” by developers Hammerpoint, who claim that the game now has more than 600,000 registered accounts and a daily player count of 150,000. It’s not known whether “Foundation Release” means “beta” or “extended alpha” or “post-beta-but-not-quite-gold-either”. It’s all a mystery.

If you’ve previously purchase the game and would like it in Steam instead, Hammerpoint will be offering a conversion page where you can generate a Steam key for yourself.

I played it a few weeks ago. It is as horrible as everyone says. No idea if theyve fixed it yet, but when i played, you could lose aggro on the zombies by jumping on a small rock etc. thats if you dont get instagibbed by hackers.

I’ve played it for at least 30 hours on and off since it was first released assuming I was testing an early alpha, but hardly anything has been added since October. Its honestly a terrible game. The images on steam are not from the released game. They’re from a developers release made purely for making those screenshots. The developers do not communicate what they’re doing. They are clearly using this as a quick cash grab.

Haven’t played it myself so I cannot comment on the quality of the game first hand, suffice to say I enjoyed the survival of Day Z a great deal … including the survival of the Arma 2 engine.

Ah Arma 2 engine you sweet magnificent bastard! It goes in guns blazing in all directions, goes to the wrong town, drives the wrong way or in first gear for an hour, circles a trigger point for 30 minutes in hair tearing frustration, has your squadmates jazzercise from prone to standing endlessly and then when it looks like all your tanks are bouncing randomly under withering .22 fire – suddenly from the furious flames outbursts the Arma 2 engine, astride a Panther tank, guns belching death, bimbos hanging off each buffed bicep as the enemy flees in retreat.

Damn their games are singlehandedly the best and worst in gaming, when it’s poo stinks, it’s corpse like, but when it hits the money it sings like a beautiful song a clarion call to the gamer – you Arma/ original OFP fans know what I mean.

Not really. See call of duty. Not everyone reads forums etc. From the images and description (which are false and misleading) it looks alright. Definitely worth $13 anyway. It’s not though. The fact that hammerpoint have put it on steam on special in its current state seems to prove that they’re trying to milk this for as much as possible before everyone realises its trash.

Also they’ve updated the Steam page to remove some of the outright lies. I can’t believe they were allowed to put up what they had there. The majority of things on that page aren’t implemented and won’t be for some time, if at all and the screenshots are extremely misleading.

I figured for $12 it was worth a punt even if it turns out to be horrible if I can get a few hours of fun with some friends in, it’s $12 well spent. On the upside, I’m going in with the impression that its incredibly shit, so at least it wont be disappointing lol.

wolfstar90: Also they’ve updated the Steam page to remove some of the outright lies. I can’t believe they were allowed to put up what they had there. The majority of things on that page aren’t implemented and won’t be for some time, if at all and the screenshots are extremely misleading.

For those that bought it on Steam yesterday, I imagine they should be able to as the game was falsely advertised. I don’t want a refund, the $30 I paid was acceptable for 30 hours playtesting and I’ll certainly check by every few months to see what has been added (assuming they’re still adding things in a couple of months). I just feel the need to warn people that this game is not as advertised and probably never will be.